Marketing Operations and Automation

The marketing operations and automation community on BrightTALK is composed of thousands of marketing automation professionals. Learn and share best practices for marketing campaign analysis, outbound marketing and lead creation with hundreds of on-demand webinars and videos. Increase your engagement and fine tune your funnel management strategy by asking questions during live, interactive webinars with marketing automation peers and industry leaders.

Do you have Office 365 in your organization? You may not realize it, but you already have the perfect solution for delivering the right information to the right people, at the right time, in the right format and language–and on the device of their choosing.

Most content services hubs are expensive and complicated. Office 365 is an affordable, cloud-based, scalable platform that allows you to build content for a future of AI, machine-learning, chatbots, and machine-to-machine communication. It enables everyone, whether experienced in content architectures like DITA and XML or not, to use Microsoft Word and other familiar tools to create and share content in real time. Gartner recognized Microsoft as a leader in the Content Management Platform Magic Quadrant in 2017. Find out why!

Join our special guest host, Paul Perrotta, and our special guest, Steffen Frederiksen, for this free, one-hour webinar, and learn exactly why and how Office 365 is a great platform for authoring, managing, and delivering the content of the future. Attendees will also learn the benefits that come with using it, as well as be taken through a specific use case in financial services.

ABOUT STEFFEN FREDERIKSEN

Since 1989, Steffen Frederiksen has been working with the creation, management, and distribution of structured, reusable business content. This work includes methods, software tools, training workshops and CMS solutions. He has managed the training of more than 200,000 writers around the globe, primarily in the financial services, pharma, and other regulated industries.

While working for Information Mapping, Steffen developed the concept of “object-oriented information” as well as the MOM (Mapping Object Model) XML DTDs – some of the foundation of the DITA standard. With the objective of bringing the power of structured content to everyone, he founded DitaExchange in 2001 and developed its Dx4 software, which combines the DITA standard, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office.

The hype surrounding AI has reached a fever pitch, but practical uses that are delivering concrete, practical business results are here, and it’s time to get real.

From taking over the routine requests for customer service agents, reducing costs, speeding up service, and boosting customer satisfaction, to reliably helping marketers deliver what a customer wants, when they want it and where, AI is popping up everywhere, and companies need to figure out where they stand, fast, to stay competitive.

Join this VB Live event, hosted by Forrester Senior Analyst Brandon Purcell and Kayak Chief Scientist Matthias Keller to learn more about how to identify the AI use cases that can transform your business, and how to get started, stat.

You’ll learn:
* What technologies fall under the AI umbrella
* How companies like Kayak use AI to understand customers and personalize experiences
* How to identify the right AI use case for your business
* Common challenges firms face when implementing AI
* Why AI’s time in the sun has finally come, and why it’s here to stay

On December 12, 2017, Steve Manning presented a discussion on how new technology will change the way we approach content. The addition of Bots, voice-enabled interfaces, and Artificial Intelligence means we must change the way we structure content. We are moving from a broadcast style of communication – publish and hope for the best – to a more conversational style of communication. More question and answer.

This imposes requirements on the content models you need to create if you want to talk to the Bots. We must be more granular in our models. We need to implement Microcontent.

Join our special guest host, Val Swisher, and Steve Manning In Part II of this series, where Steve will go a little deeper. He will discuss the language of bots/AI: intents, attributes, and assets. Then he’ll relate that to how the granularity you design into your models, the semantic labels you apply to elements, and the taxonomy you capture in creation can make or break your ability to publish DITA content to the new technologies. The session will include real-world scenarios that rely on a microcontent strategy.

Reusing content can be beneficial, but complicated to manage without proper guidelines. You can reuse content on many levels and apply different methods, from conditional filtering on entire maps to variable phrases for single words.

Join guest host Paul Perrotta, and our special guest, Gosia Radymiak, Customer Success Manager at Jorsek LLC, the makers of easyDITA, for this free, one-hour webinar. In this webinar, attendees will learn how to 1) review reuse mechanisms available in DITA; 2) learn about reuse best practices, including content organization and localization do’s and don'ts; 3) learn how to create a reuse strategy suitable for your content; and finally, 4) to get links to useful resources about DITA and reuse, including articles and training.

In this webinar we will look at three ways to engage with influencers in a B2B context to support your content marketing, lead generation and PR activities. We will also look at what criteria to consider when choosing which influencers to work with for each type of activity.

Disruption from a few data behemoths and agile startups has forced the retail, CPG and eCommerce industries to innovate and retrain themselves to be data-driven. Join us as we look at two repeatable success stories about how Wish decided to use their data to close the data gap and give their customers an excellent mobile shopping experience.

Who Should Attend:
Retail, CPG and eCommerce executives, marketing operations, digital marketers, or data analysts who want to learn how a startup founded in 2011 beat Amazon to become the #1 shopping app on iOS and Android.

70% of marketers have pledged to create more content this year. How are you going to stand out from the increase in blog posts, ebooks, and white papers across all marketing campaigns? Learn 3 ways to transform your PDF-first marketing strategies into stronger, more engaging experiences that connect with your audience!

There are two areas of GDPR that are most relevant to us in Marketing - consent and legitimate interest. Without gaining one of these, we are unable to communicate with our marketing database in a post-GDPR world and therefore run the risk of losing a large percentage of our marketable database. Not only are we fearing that but with non-GDPR compliant fines being up to 4% of global turnover, this is a topic now very much on the radar of the c-suite.

So how can we go about generating marketing opt-ins and capture consent?

The Austin Marketo User Group has teamed up with Openprise and Inbox Pros to host a series of webinars to educate marketers on the practical steps needed to gain compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before it takes effect on May 25, 2018.

Join us Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:00 AM CT, for the first webinar of the series, GDPR 201: What to Do Next, featuring leading GDPR experts, Ed King, CEO and Founder of Openprise, and Chris Arrendale, CEO of Inbox Pros. Our experts will share a practical, step-by-step plan for gaining compliance and cover the tougher parts of GDPR that aren’t getting much attention. Webcast topics include:

· How to inventory EU data in Marketo and across your MarTech stack.

· Strategies for working with “data processors”, including 3rd party data providers.

How do we deliver highly consistent and relevant multi-channel experiences for our customers?

How do Customer Data Platforms optimize multi-channel marketing?

In this 45 minute webinar you’ll learn how to use a 360 degree view of your customer data for better multichannel insights, more effective predictive analytics and to execute perfectly targeted, channel-optimized customer journeys.

This webinar is aimed at marketing, analytics and CRM professionals seeking to improve their
customer insight and optimize campaign performance through a Single Customer View of offline and online data.

3 out of 4 B2B professionals agree – the importance of hosted events to their company’s success is increasing. So, what can you do to maximize your event ROI to drive leads, pipeline, and revenue generation?

Register now and you’ll learn:

- The steps needed to plan, organize, and manage a hard-hitting event strategy
- How to identify gaps and potential hindrances to your event success
- Best practices for pre-, during, and post-event marketing

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Everyone knows what it’s like to attend an event, but hosting your own event is another story altogether. From the showroom floor to the keynote panels, from the one-on-one meetings to the breakout sessions, events have the influential power to educate, connect, and engage prospects and customers far more than any whitepaper, eBook, or guide ever could.

An event may look like an array of unconnected tactics from afar, but look a bit closer, and as any successful B2B event team knows, every effort plays a role with the goals in mind to drive demand, accelerate pipeline, and generate revenue to impact the overall business.

So, how are today’s most successful companies planning, executing, and reaping the rewards of hosted events?

Join us for this special webinar and discover how companies utilize events to drive greater pipeline, sales, and revenue results, and uncover the gaps to reach event success.

Sales and marketing leaders alike chase efficiency through automation and tool integration to scale their functions. However, too often they’re operating in siloes, inadvertently bombarding prospects and customers with disconnected, non-contextual outreach from all sides.

It’s bad customer experience. And in a time when businesses are trying to focus on building lasting customer relationships and a recurring revenue model, automating a bad experience creates alienation at a massive scale.

Join Justin Shriber, VP of Marketing at LinkedIn, to learn what makes a good customer experience and the imperative new approach required to help sales and marketing overcome this fundamental gap to align towards an orchestrated approach to tap into the massive source of economic growth and opportunity that is the B2B market today.

AI isn’t a nice-to-have any more, it’s a must-have. There’s a reason why corporate giants like Google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Apple, and Salesforce are competing to snatch up private AI companies. In the first quarter of 2017 alone, 37 AI companies were swallowed whole.

Companies aren’t just using these AI tools to enable existing marketing strategies; they’re taking those strategies to the next level, going beyond simple retention and delivering active engagement. AI technology offers companies unprecedented insight into customer behaviors, patterns, and beliefs, allowing you to seamlessly anticipate customer needs and serve up hyper-personalized, emotionally resonant campaigns where and when they’re most welcome.

2018 is the year to seize the AI advantage. To learn more about the technology you need, the opportunities it unlocks, and what it takes to get your ball in the game, don’t miss this VB Live event!

In this webinar, you'll learn:
* What’s new in AI for 2018 -- and what’s coming down the pike
* How businesses are using AI to drive results
* How to go beyond customer retention and power customer engagement

Engaging with today’s modern audience along the linear customer journey we’re accustomed to isn’t keeping up with customer expectations. In today’s digital ecosystem, brands have more opportunities than ever before to communicate with their audience. But making sense of so much data, gleaning timely and relevant insights and becoming smarter about delivering personalized experiences at scale is difficult.

So why is creating in-the-moment, cross-channel and cross-device experiences so hard? Data is fragmented and hard to integrate across all of the technologies savvy professionals use to communicate with their customers.

Join this webinar to learn:

- How integrating a data supply chain can help brands collect, transform, enrich and orchestrate their data
- What data orchestration is and how your brand can start taking advantage of it
- The key ways to create downstream, fully correlated data that is available in any format and any environment
- Top solutions to data fragmentation and martech tool integration challenges

Are you looking for ways to improve the effectiveness of your digital marketing efforts? Having the insight to provide the most relevant engagement across each touchpoint along a customer journey is key. Naveen Punjabi, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Data and Analytics, from Google, and Erin Franz, Technology Alliances Manager, at Looker will share how you can drive actionable marketing campaigns and establish a data-driven, self-service marketing culture by integrating data from across your enterprise to power your marketing campaigns.

During this webinar, learn how to:
• Access marketing and customer data from anywhere using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
• Load marketing and customer data into BigQuery to power marketing analytics
• Visualize and garner insights into all your marketing and customer data with Looker

In this fast-paced webinar, you'll learn how to use content to turn customers into volunteer marketers. Join best-selling author and digital marketing celebrity Jay Baer, and he'll unveil his framework for Talk Triggers: content that creates word-of-mouth.

James Koons, Chief Privacy Officer, answers audience questions on preparing for GDPR by defining an opt-in, and re-opt-in process.

Topics include:
- What options do you have if you don't have formal consent to email your contacts?
- When re-opting-in contacts, how should you deal with contacts who are engaging with your marketing emails?

Global heads of marketing know that having access to high quality customer data is the key to making strategic business decisions. Data collection affects everything a brand does - from customer experience, applications, reporting, retention, conversions and more. And having a solid and strategic data layer in place has downstream benefits for it all and truly becomes the catalyst for overall business transformation.

Join Tealium and Napkyn Analytics for a discussion on how to standardize data collection by way of a data layer, and how that can be used to drive digital transformation. Attend this webinar to learn:

- 6 key ways to use a data layer to drive digital transformation and evolve your martech stack to deploy data-driven marketing techniques of the future

- Top strategies for data preparedness with all of your brand’s digital assets to ensure they’re governed and comply with business critical requirements like GDPR

When it’s used to curate, create, and deliver fresh content, artificial intelligence pushes the marketing content game to the next level. Your goal: Get the right content to the right people, when and where they want to see it. Machine learning is the key, saving you time, money, and guesswork.

Machine learning can help you uncover not just what content is most competitive but what characteristics are pushing it to the top of the list, and even help you fine-tune your message in real time, keeping it fresh and commanding consumer attention. Once that message is refined and optimized, AI can help you determine consumer intent, seize site-specific demand opportunities, gauge opportunity sizing — and then make sure your message is discovered with predictive intelligence.

To learn more about how to take the educated guesswork out of content creation, make your pitch more persuasive, and magnify your message, don’t miss this VB Live event.

Using case studies from around the world with companies from both the B2B and B2C world Neal Schaffer will be sharing examples of how social media influence can form an integral part of your marketing and PR campaigns in 2018. Whether you want to work with influencers externally or boost the reach and influence of your own team Neal will share best practice examples that can be deployed both for short term campaigns or as part of a longer term strategy and practical tips for how to get started for those new to influencer marketing and new ideas for the seasoned pro.

About Neal Schaffer:

Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation through consulting, training, and helping enterprises large and small execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives. President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland). Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in a dozen countries. He is also the author of 3 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley), and in 2018 will publish his 4th book, The Business of Influence, on educating the market on how any business can leverage the potential of influencer marketing. Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan.

Subscription businesses can lose the happiest of subscribers because of involuntary churn—that deadly form of attrition that comes from card declines and invoice failures.

Even slight variations in a subscription business’ churn rate can have significant impact on revenues, so it’s critical to address involuntary churn -- and easier than ever. The latest subscription technology leverages machine learning, which can improve transaction success rates and billing continuity, helping automatically reduce involuntary churn and boost monthly recurring revenue by an average of 9 percent.

Want to know more about how subscription businesses are making a positive impact on revenue? How can you optimize decline management and revenue recovery strategies based on your own unique business needs? Join our latest VB Live event and you’ll learn how to start and where, plus get a first look at the latest Revenue Recovery Benchmarks, which reveal the powerful impact of machine learning.

Don’t miss out!

Registration is free.

In this webinar, you’ll learn...
* The power of dynamic retry logic, optimized for each individual invoice
* The incremental lift that a well-designed dunning strategy can have on revenue
* The key metrics every subscription business should understand to prevent churn
* How to develop a comprehensive decline management and revenue recovery plan using proven strategies for successful transactions.

Chatbots have a long way to go to be self-sufficient, but if you build them on a base of structured content, they can be a helpful content delivery tool today. Join The Content Wrangler, and Patrick Bosek of Jorsek LLC to learn how you can publish your DITA content to your chatbot.

As a part of this process, Patrick will talk about how chatbots fit into your total content delivery strategy, how to transform DITA content for chatbots, and how to update and maintain chatbots as a delivery system.

About Patrick Bosek

Patrick is a co-founder and Director of Customer Success at Jorsek LLC, the makers easyDITA. Since beginning with Jorsek LLC in 2005 Patrick has worked on a wide range of projects all focused on improving authoring, production, and distribution of content. Most recently, his primary focus has been empowering the users of easyDITA and generally advancing the product documentation industry.

Patrick is a software industry professional specializing in developing, productizing, and solving problems with product content software. He is a highly skilled developer, thoughtful manager, passionate customer advocate.

Customer experience technologies play significant roles, yet it’s not uncommon for CX tech to actually make it harder to be a happy customer. To get it right, you need to look at customer experience technology not from an employee’s viewpoint, but from your customer’s perspective.

For customer relationship management, automated customer interactions, customer loyalty, enterprise feedback management, customer communities, social media and other platforms, this presentation will show you how to get beyond a technology-centered definition of customer experience management to view things the way customers do, and to leverage CX tech to inspire customer-centered management company-wide in ways that customers will reward with enthusiastic recommendations and expanded spending with your brand.

About the speaker
Lynn Hunsaker is Chief Customer Officer of ClearAction Continuum, which centers businesses on customers by empowering marketing and customer experience teams to adopt customer-centric outside-in thinking and influence for accelerating growth. She led customer experience strategy at Applied Materials and Sonoco Products Company since the early 1990s where her roles included Voice of the Customer Manager, Customer Satisfaction Improvement Manager and Head of Corporate Quality. Lynn has authored 3 customer experience handbooks, including Innovating Superior Customer Experience, and she was author of the year in 2017 and 2015 on CustomerThink.com. She is past president of Silicon Valley American Marketing Association and currently on the Board of Directors for Customer Experience Professionals Association. Lynn co-founded the ClearAction Value Exchange, which helps companies crack the code to overcoming organizational barriers to success with customer-driven change initiatives.

A projected 10 billion more devices will be connecting to the Internet in the next four years. The business potential behind that number is huge, but so are the challenges the IoT ecosystem faces — from lack of a shared architecture for interconnection to the continued problem of how to authenticate devices on the network.

But as customers connect more devices and expect less friction and more continuity across them, blockchain technology seems to hold the potential to unlock new business model use cases — and ROI from them. Join the latest VB Live event to learn more about intersections between IoT and distributed ledger technologies and explore how they can unlock the security required to realize a profitable Future of Things.

In this webinar you'll learn:

* What distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain mean for businesses in 2018?
* How blockchain for IoT can build trust between people and parties who transact together, reduce costs, and accelerate transactions
* The future of universal architecture and what it means for autonomous products and services

How do you avoid your enterprise data lake turning into a so-called data swamp? The explosion of structured, unstructured and streaming data can be overwhelming for data lake users, and make it unmanageable for IT. Without scalable, repeatable, and intelligent mechanisms for cataloguing and curating data, the advantages of data lakes diminish. The key to solving the problem of data swamps is Informatica’s metadata driven approach which leverages intelligent methods to automatically discover, profile and infer relationships about data assets. Enabling business analysts and citizen integrators to quickly find, understand and prepare the data they are looking for.

The healthcare system feels as though it’s years behind, compared to other consumer-dominated industries, and for good reason. Fluctuating payment models, care structures, patient journeys, and shifting relationships between patients and their physicians have complex, ever-shifting barriers to implementing innovative solutions – and do it at scale.

But the potential to disrupt healthcare with innovative solutions and technology at scale is huge. It just takes an astute venture capital partner who can help you navigate the complexities, paired with your own healthcare expertise. Join this webinar to learn how VC partnerships can help you navigate through the regulations and complicated nature of healthcare, and get your startup thriving.

By attending this webinar, you’ll:

* Learn what it takes for a startup to be successful in the highly complex and regulated healthcare industry
* Gain perspective from established health tech CEOs
* Understand the importance of having a strategic VC in an industry like healthcare
* See what VCs are looking for in the healthcare and health tech categories

Buying a new vehicle can be a personal and significant purchase. Often starting with an aspirational poster on a bedroom wall, the car-buying journey is one that could take weeks, if not years. That’s why delivering the most relevance and tapping into those emotions is so important for automotive marketers.

BlueVenn Consultant Director Jeremy Bender will discuss how IM Group, distributors for Subaru, use pioneering personalization approaches to deliver marketing content to the right person at the most opportune moments to see automotive dreams become reality.

During this webinar, you will learn:

- How Subaru used a closed loop marketing methodology to revolutionize the customer experience
- The importance of relevance in a marketing echo system
- How personalization helped increase purchase interest by a third